IN MEMORY OF OUR BAXENDEN LADS
1914 - 1918
& 1939 - 1946
IN MEMORY OF OUR BAXENDEN LADS
1914 - 1918
& 1939 - 1946
Wm. Turner - November 1994 |
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5435 WILLIAM THOMAS CHEVIN 20th October 1918 |
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Introduction
ANDERSON, William ANDERTON, John Henry BAILEY, Harry BARNES, James Albert BATES, Thomas Henry BOLTON, Jack BOND, Harry Hargreaves BRANDON, Tom BURY, Percy CHEVIN, William Thomas DOBSON, Walter DOWNES, Joseph DUCKWORTH, Frank DUCKWORTH, John (Jack) Pilkington GORE, Elias GREENWOOD, James HAMBLING, Benjamin George HAMBLING, Charles Buckingham HAWKER, William HEYS, James Edward HEYS, John Lawson HINDLE, Arnold JOHNSON, Harry KENYON, Ernest LIVETT, John William MARSDEN, Fred MOSS, James RATCLIFFE, Fred RUSHTON, Fred SKELLERN, John James SMITH, James Edward STOTT, Fred TODD, Walter Counsell WATERWORTH, David WHITEHEAD, John William WHITEHEAD, Riley
CUCKNELL, Alan
Accrington Pals
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SGT. 5435 WILLIAM THOMAS CHEVIN of the Royal Field Artillery died of enteric fever in hospital in the small town of Nimach, near Udaipur, Central India, on October 20th 1918. Will formerly lived in Baxenden at 696 Manchester Road, but shortly after the war started he moved to 21 Dineley Street, Church. Before the war he was for many years the foreman horsekeeper for Messrs. Kearns Allen and Co. of Baxenden. He was a farrier/shoeing-smith in the Royal Field Artillery. When war was declared Will went with his regiment to Egypt, then served in the Dardenelles (Gallipoli) and later served in Mesopotamia. He suffered badly from malaria several times, and he was convalescing at the Royal Field Artillery training depot at Nimach when he died, weakened by ill-health, during the flu epidemic of 1918. Will had never had home leave in four years of war. Nimach Municipal Cemetery holds just twelve British war graves. Almost all are artillery men who died of either flu or enteric fever. |
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